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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMost Americans believe Russia targeted U.S. soldiers, want sanctions in response, Reuters/Ipsos poll
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A majority of Americans believe that Russia paid the Taliban to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan last year amid negotiations to end the war, and more than half want to respond with new economic sanctions against Moscow, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday.
The national opinion poll conducted on Monday and Tuesday shows that the American public remains deeply suspicious of Russia four years after it tried to tip the U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump's favor, and most Americans are unhappy with how the president has handled relations with the country.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll follows a series of reports, including several by Reuters, that Russia had been rewarding Taliban-affiliated militants, possibly by offering them bounties, to attack and kill U.S. troops in the region. Moscow denies the allegations.
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Overall, 60% of Americans said they found reports of Russian bounties on American soldiers to be "very" or "somewhat" believable, while 21% said they were not credible and the rest were unsure.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/most-americans-believe-russia-targeted-us-soldiers-want-sanctions-in-response-reuters-ipsos-poll-shows/ar-BB16tIrf?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=DELLDHP
Blecht
(3,803 posts)Facts are fucking facts. Whether or not one believes them should be irrelevant.
These articles should begin by stating that the bounty story has been confirmed by multiple sources before launching into whether or not our moronic populace "believes" it.
Unfortunately, that is not the way it is. Belief is everything in our world.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Russian troops. Now, trump needs to step up and tell Putin to knock it off, but not sanctions.
Champp
(2,114 posts)Republicans worship a freaking golf-wanking draft dodger who pisses on our soldiers. They are such a disgrace.
I've known many many decades ago, republicans care about one thing and one thing only, MONEY. They put on a good show for 'supporting our troops/police, etc' for the cameras and it ads, but the truth of the matter is they are truly yellow spineless cowards, afraid of their own shadows.
The sooner they are a minority party, supported only by their minority kooky and low-IQ type supporters, the better.
ffr
(22,717 posts)Is it any wonder nobody trusts the corporate media, who are profiting from the daily he-said she-said drama!
You have succinctly stated an UGLY TRUTH.
Corporate media went drooling, blithering mad over the faux Benghazi bullshit. Now it drifts mindlessly past heinous Republican treason that endangers the lives of our soldiers - media failing to do it's job. Pathetic.